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Natasha Singer

Natasha Singer is a technology reporter in The New York Times Business section where she covers education technology. She also writes a Sunday Business column, called Technophoria, on tech innovations and their implications for society. This year, she is doing a part-time fellowship at the Data & Society Research Institute in Manhattan where she is researching the use of learning apps in primary and secondary schools in the United States. More

Natasha Singer is a technology reporter in The New York Times Business section where she covers education technology. She also writes a Sunday Business column, called Technophoria, on tech innovations and their implications for society. This year, she is doing a part-time fellowship at the Data & Society Research Institute in Manhattan where she is researching the use of learning apps in primary and secondary schools in the United States.

Ms. Singer was previously a reporter in the Sunday Business section where her series on the consumer data industry, called "You for Sale," helped prompt several congressional and federal investigations, as well as the enactment of a student online data privacy law in California.

Ms. Singer previously reported on the pharmaceutical industry and on medical ethics for the Business section. She came to The New York Times in 2005 to develop the Skin Deep column for the Thursday Styles section and cover the beauty industrial complex.

A Boston native, Ms. Singer graduated from Brown University with a degree in comparative literature and has a master's degree in creative writing from Boston University. Before joining The Times, she was a correspondent for Outside magazine covering the environment and biodiversity, and was a health and beauty editor at W magazine. She also worked in Russia as the Moscow bureau chief of The Forward, the editor-at-large of Russian Vogue, and a correspondent for Women's Wear Daily.

One year, she served as a judge, along with fellow panelist Sir Bob Geldof, in the Miss Iceland pageant.